Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 / edited by Rainer K. Baehre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baehre, Rainer K., Author.

Contributor:

Baehre, Rainer, 1949-

Series:

Carleton library series ; 189.

Carleton library series ; 189

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks--Newfoundland and Labrador--History.

Shipwrecks.

Sea stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundland. Travellers from many walks of life - explorers and missionaries, traders, fishers and mariners, Native Peoples, aristocrats and immigrants - have left rare and fascinating first-hand accounts of such disasters. Their narratives span four centuries and touch many historical sub-themes such as the appeal of religion in times of crisis, gender roles, and the ocean-as-workplace. Apart from its obvious scholarly appeal, this collection evokes psychic responses to calamity and brushes with death, perhaps the most universal experience of all.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Casting Away of the Delight (1583)1

The Shipwreck of Father Charles Lalemant, Philibert Noyrot, and Others, off Cape Breton (1629)1

Shipwreck and Distress Suffer’D Near the Coast of Newfoundland: The Anne (1704)1

Account of a Wonderful Escape from the Effects of a Storm in a Journey Over the Frozen Sea in North America (1782)1

Vessels in the Service of the Moravian Mission on the Coast of Labrador, and Some Shipwrecks (1770-1877)1

Loss of his Majesty’s Packet, the Lady Hobart (1803)1

Extreme Personal Sufferings: The Rebecca (1816)1

The H.M.S. Drake (1822)1

Two Wrecks on the Petit Nord: The Belle-Julie and the Nathalie (1826)1

Shipwreck and Sufferings of the Crew and Passengers of the Brig Neptune (1830)1

A Newfoundland Missionary’s Journal: The Despatch and Others (l835)1

The Loss of the Barque Marshal M’Donald, off Newfoundland (1835)1

The Passage of the Pique Across the Atlantic (1835)1

Awful Shipwreck: The Francis Spaight (1836)1

Destruction of the Ocean Steamer Arctic, by Collision with the Vesta (1854)1

That Terrible Day (1892): The Reason1

My First Shipwreck: The Corisande (1893)1

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-7419-0

OCLC:

1058341269